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TRANSFER TRUCK AND TURN TABLE.

No. 335,483. Patented .Feb. 2, 1886.

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(No Model.)

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TRANSFER TRUGKAND TURN TABLE.

Patented Feb. 2, 1886.

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FFICEe EDW'A'RD SAMUEL, OF PHILADELPHIA, 'PENNSYL'VAXIA.

TRANSFER-TRUCK AND TURN -TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,483, dated February 2, 1886.

Application filed October 26, 1885. Serial No. 180,951. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD SAMUEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a combined Transfer Truck and Turn Table, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to constructa combined transfer-truck and turn table for use on railways for turning cars end for end, and shifting them laterally from one track to another, as fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of my improved transfertruck and turntable. Fig. 2 is a plan view on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 1 2, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a locking device for the turntable. Fig. 5 is an enlarged section of the center bearing of the turn-table, and Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating the use for which the combined transfer truck and table is intended.

A is the frame of a truck, having antifriction-roller bearings for the axles B B, which are provided with the usual flanged wheels, b, adapted to tracks a: :0. The frame A is pref erably made entirely of metal, the longitudinal side beams, a a, being channel bars, braced by transverse channel-bars (Z d. To the bars (Z (Z is secured the center casting, D, having a hub, e, to which the center block f is secured by set-screws c. Pivoted on the center block f is the turn-table'H, composed of longitudinal angle-beams h h, secured together by transverse channel bars 2' i and segmental anglebeams i i. To the bars iis secured the central casting, I, having a center block j, which rests upon the center block f, and can be adjusted by set-screws 7;. (See Fig. 5.) To the longitudinal beams h h are se cured the rails g g, and at the four corners of the turn-table are brackets m having bearings for the spindles of frictiouwheels n-eight in the present instance, two on each bracket. Secured to the beams of the truck is a flanged ring, F, which serves as a track for the wheels at, and prevents any undue deflection of the turn-table from a horizontal plane when said table is unevenly loaded. Vhen the load on the turn-table is evenly distributed, however, the wheels n are free from the track, the load being borne by the center blocks of the turntable. The flanges of the ring F serve to prevent any lateral displacement of the turn table.

Secured to one of the channel-bars a of the frame A are bearings for a rock-shaft, I, having two arms, 1) p, the arm 1) being notched for adaptation to the lower portion of either of the angle-beams h h, and the arm 1) being weighted and tending to keep the arm 1) in position for locking the turn-table when the rails g are at right angles to those on which the truck runs. By a seriers of notches in the latch, or by other latches properly placed, the turn-table may be held at any angle. The end of the arm 1) is rounded on each side of the notch, so that the catch will be self-acting, the attention of the attendant being required, however, in order to release the catch. The center block of the turn-table j, as shown in Fig. 5, is recessed to form an oil-chamber, k, in which are wicks leading through suitable passages in said block to the upper surface of the bearing-block f, so as to maintain the same at all times in a properly-lubricated condition.

My combined transfer-truck and turn-table is intended principally for use at the depots or terminals of strectrailways, with the ideaof simplifying the handling and transferring of cars, and cconomizing space by dispensing with the usual switches and turnouts.

The truck may be adapted to a shallow trench, so that the rails of the turn-table will be in line with the floor-level, and cars can be run onto said table from any of a series of tracks terminating at the trench, as shown, for instance, in Fig. (5, the cars being then turned end for end or transferred from one track to another, either parallel with or at an angle to that from which they have been run.

I claim as my invention- 1. The truck mounted upon wheels, and com posed of ion gitudinal and transverse beams and a frame, D, in combination with the turntable, also composed oflongitudinal and transverse beams and a frame, I, and with bearings carried by said frames, as set forth.

2. The combination of the truck mounted upon wheels and having longitudinal and transverse beams bearing frame Dand ring F, and the turn-table mounted upon the truck and having longitudinal and transverse beams IOO bearing frame and wheels, which bear upon on said truck, said latch consisting of an arm,

the ring F when the turn-table is deflected, p, and a counterbalance -weig-ht tending to as Set forth. maintain said arm in the locking position, all [5 3. The combination of the truck and a turnsubstantially as specified.

5 table carried thereby with a latch or latches In testimony whereof Ihavesigned my name on said truck for locking the turn-table to the to this specification in the presence of two truck when the rails of the turn-table are in 1 subscribing witnesses.

a suitable position to allow a car to pass onto or from the turn-table, all substantially as set LDWD' SAMUEL 1o forth. Witnesses:

4. The combination of the truck and aturn- WILLIAM F. DAVIS,

table carried thereby with a latch or latches HARRY SMITH. 

